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Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking has been organized around Halpern's (2003) framework for teaching critical thinking skills across disciplines. According to this framework, well-rounded critical thinking instruction helps students acquire:

a critical thinking attitude or habit of intellectual deliberation;

individual intellectual skills like analysis and inference;

the ability to use these skills in new contexts, and

the ability to reflect upon and evaluate one's own thinking (metacognition).

In each section, you will find:

an overview and exploration of each topic

an annotated summary of research and resources

featured strategies for skills training and teaching critical thinking

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Teaching critical thinking provides students with intentional challenges and supportive practice in overcoming those challenges using specific intellectual skills. The purpose of this resource is to equip you with insights and tools to help your students through this process.